Thursday, September 23, 2010

A Short History of Rieke, v. 3 (2006-present)

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In early 2006, Rieke was again caught up in a district-driven plan to close and consolidate schools throughout the City.  And once again, Ri...
Thursday, September 16, 2010

A Short History of Rieke, v.2 (2003-2006)

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The long, steady decline in PPS elementary enrollment (from its very crowded early-'70's high) led the district to close a number of...

A Short History of Rieke, v.1 (Construction to 2003)

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I think the only way to really understand the current growth in enrollment at Rieke is to understand its recent (and maybe not-so-recent) hi...
Tuesday, September 29, 2009

Liveblogging PTA Meeting 9/29

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The PTA meeting convened with about 30 parents attending, including a lot of K / 1st grade parents.  Judith announced the board, including s...
Sunday, September 13, 2009

Back to Business

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School is back in session! The building looks great; the new portables are up and running, and the classrooms are full. Important items f...
Tuesday, September 1, 2009

A Hurricane of Cyclones

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As I note below, the new portable has brought with it the prospect of new fences; they're apparently being installed around the air cond...
Monday, August 31, 2009

More improvements!

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As we get closer to school opening, the pace of improvements increases. Some photos of the significant ones follow.... First, Charles H. re...
Saturday, August 29, 2009

Community Cleaned Up!

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Thank you to all the parents who showed up Saturday morning to pull, dig, sweep, shovel, rake, till, and otherwise neaten up the school and ...
Friday, August 14, 2009

When Does School Start?

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Our "classroom assignment" letters (received at the end of July) indicated that Grades 1-5 would start on the Tuesday after Labor ...

Community Care Day August 29

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Hiding on the back of the teacher assignment letters was an announcement about the annual PPS Community Care Day. This is the day when peop...